After having a late onset of the season by about almost two weeks, the south west monsoon has been failed to blow over the island with its usual strength resulting below average rainfall in most parts of the Wet zones where the south west monsoon usually brings heavy rains, said Dr. B.V.R. Punyawardena, Head/Climatology Division, Natural Resources Management Centre of the Department of Agriculture in Peradeniya.

Former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa who was being treated at the National Hospital, was taken to the hospital’s Cardiology Unit for several tests on Monday.

A group of saboteurs are trying to embarrass and discredit the government and this is a great threat to democracy, veteran Dramatist Dharmasiri Bandaranayake said to news.lk, giving a special statement.

Sri Lanka is to open in May the first ever museum to showcase the richness, the variety and the evolution of the Ayurveda traditional medicine heritage of Sri Lanka.